King Charles I. Engraving by J.H. Robinson after A. van Dyck.

King Charles I. Engraving by T. Woodman and H. Mutlow, ca. 1784, after A. van Dyck.

King James I of England and VI of Scotland with Charles Prince of Wales. Engraving by W. van de Passe, ca. 1625.

King Charles I. Engraving by J. Taylor after A. van Dyck.

King Charles I as Duke of York and Albany. Engraving by S. de Passe, 1616.

King Charles I at Holdenby House (Holmby House), Northamptonshire, is summoned by Cornet Joyce, who shows the King his pistol as his authority. Engraving after P. Angelis.

King Charles I. Engraving after A. van Dyck.

King Charles I. Engraving by B. Reading after E. Bower.

King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1742, after A. van Dyck.

By the King : A proclamation for adiouring the Terme [on account of the plague; also forbidding any citizen from seeking the royal touch as a cure for the King's Evil. 9 Sept. 1630].

Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / Set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Majesties speciall command. With sundry orders thought meet by His Majestie, and his Privie Councell for prevention of the plague. Also certaine select statutes ... Together with His Majesties proclamation for further direction therein and a decree in Starre-Chamber. Concerning buildings and in-mates.

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The illness of Charles, Duke of Albany (Charles I), from 1600 to 1612 : an historical case of rickets / J.J. Keevil.

<p>The first in a trilogy of programmes presented by the historian Lucy Worsley which studies the medical problems of monarchs with the premise that by looking at their belongings and letters we can tell their intimate secrets - and these are what defined their actions. Worsley's first artefact is a pisspot excavated from Henry VIII's privy garden at Hampton Court. She considers the many ways that the king may have tried to boost his sperm count when it was clear that his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was unlikely to bear him further children after she reached the age of 40. Several wives later, he had his desired son - Edward. Edward was the first monarch to write an intimate diary; he wrote about the injustices of being a child monarch and complained about his guardian and uncle (Somerset). He died at 15 after contracting a fever (probably tuberculosis). His elder sister Mary became queen and 3 months after she was married, she became pregnant. As was the custom she retired from public view. However, despite all appearances, she never had a baby. A text about childbirth at the time by Eucharius Rösslin (The Birth of Mankind) was available in English but there were no diagnostic tests for pregnancy and Mary would not have been examined so no one knows whether this was a phantom pregnancy  She died 3 years later, probably of cancer. Elizabeth I is side-stepped. Next Worsley looks at the Stuart dynasty; King James and his heir. From contemporary accounts it was clear that James preferred the company of young men which changed the nature of court-life; his favourite was Buckingham. James' heir, Henry was a robust youth but he contracted typhoid and died. The next in line, Charles I had a problem walking as a child and he had orthopaedic boots made for him (attributed to rickets). By accounts he was very introverted as a person, growing up in the shadow of his preferred elder brother; he had a stammer. Political unrest and the civil war put a temporary end to the British monarchy.</p>

Fit to rule : how royal illness changed medical history. Part 1.Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men.

viii, 173, lxx pages : plates, portrait, facsimiles ; (8vo)

Essays and orations, read and delivered at the Royal College of Physicians; to which is added an Account of the opening of the tomb of King Charles I / By Sir Henry Halford.

<p>Left, King James I, seated, holding a sword and a skull; right, King Charles I as Prince of Wales, holding a skull. According to the British Museum online catalogue, there is an earlier state, dating from after the death of Henry Frederick Prince of Wales (1612), in which the prince is named as "Charles": this is likely to have been produced in 1621. The present state is later, still showing the same prince's portrait as before, but with the name changed to "Henrii". This is assumed to date from 1625, when Charles became King and so ceased to be Prince of Wales. The same face was retained as before, since the two brothers (Henry Frederick and Charles) looked quite similar to each other</p>

1 print : engraving ; platemark 30.4 x 20.7 cm

1 unnumbered leaf 2 unnumbered leaves, vii, 108 pages : diagrams ; (12mo)

Mr. William Lilly's True history of King James the First, and King Charles the First. With sundry observations, remarkable passages, and many secret transactions not 'till now divulged / Faithfully published from his own copy.

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By the King : a proclamation for the adiournament [sic] of part of Michaelmas tearme.

By the King : a proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish dayes, appointed by the law, to be hereafter strictly obserued by all sorts of people.

By the King. A proclamation for the better ordering of those who repaire to the court, for their cure of the disease, called, the Kings euill.

By the King : a proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish-dayes, appointed by the law, to be hereafter strictly obserued by all sorts of people.

By the King. A proclamation for the better ordering of those who repayre to the court, for their cure of the disease called the Kings euill.

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Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649

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The illness of Charles, Duke of Albany (Charles I), from 1600 to 1612 : an historical case of rickets / J.J. Keevil.

Fit to rule : how royal illness changed medical history. Part 1.Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men.

Essays and orations, read and delivered at the Royal College of Physicians; to which is added an Account of the opening of the tomb of King Charles I / By Sir Henry Halford.

King James I of England and VI of Scotland with Charles Prince of Wales. Engraving by W. van de Passe, ca. 1625.

Mr. William Lilly's True history of King James the First, and King Charles the First. With sundry observations, remarkable passages, and many secret transactions not 'till now divulged / Faithfully published from his own copy.

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Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649

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The illness of Charles, Duke of Albany (Charles I), from 1600 to 1612 : an historical case of rickets / J.J. Keevil.

Fit to rule : how royal illness changed medical history. Part 1.Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men.

Essays and orations, read and delivered at the Royal College of Physicians; to which is added an Account of the opening of the tomb of King Charles I / By Sir Henry Halford.

King James I of England and VI of Scotland with Charles Prince of Wales. Engraving by W. van de Passe, ca. 1625.

Mr. William Lilly's True history of King James the First, and King Charles the First. With sundry observations, remarkable passages, and many secret transactions not 'till now divulged / Faithfully published from his own copy.

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